The LEGEND....TENdulkar

It was a great moment when Sachin played a marvelous inning and broke the record of Saeed Anwar. Charle also reached the same stage.....not out, but Saeed Anwar was first to reach there. It was important
for a player like Sachin's stature to reach to this destination. Last time, I felt bad when even after scoring 175 against Australia, India couldn't win the match...so could have been the feeling of Sachin...I was hurt that he was almost there yet so far.

Yesterday too, I couldn't dare to go to see the match, thanx to my superstitions...that if I reach home to see the match, Sachin may get out sooner....Sahwag was already in pavilion. We stayed in offices and tracked the match on http://www.cricinfo.com/ or http://www.cricbuzz.com/ ... when Sachin crossed 150...the hope was building. Now, we were stuck to a mobile, turned into Radio...We all were accumulated at Nitin's place...Rahul, Amit, Anindya, me...others also joined in a short time.

Sachin was great while reaching to 190...and then slowed down a bit...but it was obvious that he is on fire and today, he'll make the history with all his commitements. God is with those who make their ways against the strides....and Sachin was true fighter. He completed 200....Dhoni was too wonderful and it was very clear that S. Africa has lost the match.

God of the cricket, Sachin Tendulkar has reached to a stage where any body else could reach, looks impossible. A salute to Sachin....on reaching to this milestone.

information on samsung customer care...service center in Noida

I encountered a problem with Samsung hard disk (250 GB) which was quite unusual. What was happening was that on my IBM think pad, when I connected it, it forced the laptop to shut down. Utlimately, it was difficult to know what has gone wrong. I struggled to get some support on Samsung customer care....the number is -

011 30308282

and the service center in Noida -

B - 65
Ground floor
Sector - 8, Noida
0120 4248361

In fact, my brother got it from Singapore so I'm worried....if they would help me free of cost.

Also, I already have put some data which is not recoverable, seems as of now....more worry is
that I doubt the reliability on the device and would be hesitant to put further data on it. What if I
fail to access something important.

I'm sure there are possibilities to be able to retrieve the data...but what if the disk drive shut down
your master device itself...:-( i.e. my laptop.

I'm hoping it works with customer care...

Sulphate.....

This weekend, I(We) watched Ishqiya, It was an invitation from Vivek to Me and K. and we obliged him by joining them. As usual, Vivek reached the GIP, Noida 5-7 minutes late and We were there, but as per standards reached just after our host were available there ;-) Anyway, we managed to take tickets and went inside to watch the movie (delayed by 15-20 minutes).

Movie is overall good...for rating you can always see TimeofIndia ratings..I thin it was *** star. The plot is of Eastern UP and the language they speak is mainly of Western UP (Merath, Muzafar nagar...), as usual it's Vishal Bhardwaj...who is actually not from eastern UP himself but he fancy a lot about Purvanchal. In previous movies also, he is interested in showing badly the bad things in the eastern UP social structure. In his films, 101% public is aware of Gundagardi and participate in it. That's Vishal Bhardwaj. In the movie, only true eastern UP language i.e. bhojpuri is spoken by either the old lady, whome the main characters ask for Varma ji or few children fighters, here and there.

Personally, I liked the story but the context setting has taken too much of time. till interval, there is nothing moving in the films and then suddenly too many things happening. Arshad and Naseer, both are good.....but Jijaji of Naseer is real good chap. His funny acting and the sattire he wear is funny. absurdity is natural in Vishal's movie and we expected it to be even more....Few things like Ch****am sulphate is good. In between, there are some other abuses but overall it's under control.

End of the movie might have been even better but Vishal seems to be inspired by Priyadarshan to great extent in previous few films....and end becomes a bit of bogus....I couldn't understand also what signify the Jijaji targetting three of them going away. Is he going to make another sulphate movie ??

BTW, Good to see once !! Great work by Vidya ! Good to see Arshad/Naseer and Jijaji ! The kid is also impressive with gun....but that's something Vishal should avoid from films....may be it's realty in some part of the eastern UP, but this way, it may end up kids handling more revolvers than school bags....Afterall, Vishal's movies are hyped due to obscenity, in language or some hot smooches/scenes and in eastern UP, there is no meaning at all of an "A" status. Mr Vishal, I request you to take care of it further in your movies !!!